Houston Flood

Texas Man Uses Massive Inflatable Dam to Save House

national guard guy on the news says its the largest deployment since world war one.

I heard they were literally all deployed.

That inflatable dam story is from 2016 - I wonder if it wouldve held back this years waters?

Those things usually do better when the water's creeping in on you, not pouring directly out of the sky four inches every hour.

xp thanks for factcheck and sorry!

Eh its easy to miss these things I do all the time.

Either way it is a neat idea! (and expensive i would imagine)

awesome emergency plan

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hurricane-harvey/harvey-danger-major-chemical-plant-near-houston-likely-explode-facility-n797581

are these just robots posting this stuff? also, why?

https://scontent.fbed1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21230758_10212833830614248_5910740196543957452_n.jpg?oh=7a003f75df086fb5ad9c90a6d5400f1d&oe=5A19A380

three words: "trump tower moscow"

http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2017/08/obama_trump_harvey_katrina.html

Lol scott, I had the same reaction over in the politics thread. Yeah, I still don't get it.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a57276/harvey-longterm-effects/

Pierce referencing the many long-term environmental problems:

Houston, part of the "Chemical Coast," presents a huge challenge in a major flooding event, said Mathy Stanislaus, who oversaw the federal Superfund program throughout the Obama administration. Typically the EPA tries to identify Superfund sites in a major storm's path to "shore up the active operations" and "minimize seepage from sites," Stanislaus said. "This is not the time to dictate; it's the time to work together well with state and local officials to think about needs that need to be met."

....Item: Repeatedly over the past 15 years, the Texas legislature refused to pass any plan to adapt the affected infrastructure as long as that legislation contained any reference to climate change. (The climate crisis, of course, is the thing that makes storms like Harvey the most predictable of all)

jfc

Oh great, plague is in the fucking mix now?

(Re that link)

v Planet of the Apes

http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2017/08/galveston_lab_that_houses_dead.html

Thx

http://usa360-tv.com/breaking-news-usain-bolt-donates-150-million-dollars-to-hurricane-harvey-victims/

wow dude

fuck's sake

Not sure that's legit.

Kinda shocked he even has that much money.

it's been debunked already

Ok - sorry!

It would be pretty funny if he just casually whomped JJ Watt's big fundraising push with a massive donation though.

http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2017/08/obama_trump_harvey_katrina.html

― Glengarry Glen Marshall (Old Lunch), Thursday, August 31, 2017

I had to take this screenshot when I followed this link earlier today. The juxtaposition of ads against the text is - the right word escapes me

http://i.imgur.com/tntPQgU.jpg

lol iphone screengrab is hueg

Have eyes on the Galleria Zone D'Erotica rn.

So Imelda...many North & Eastside suburbs and communities are getting continuing rains that have already lapped what they got in Harvey.

Seems like a bad place for a city, in the post polar vortex world.

Got a river running outside my window rn. Rain has slowed down significantly tho.

i had to take shelter at my brother’s place on my way home. lots and lots of stranded cars and people who are leaving cars on curbs and medians to find a place to wait it out

Stuck at work. Kids are stuck at school. It is a weird feeling when children are inaccessible.

my friends are all sending pics of their sandbagged front doors... this sure happened quickly! be safe Houstonian ILXors

yeah, kids in remote locations is unnerving. i don’t have any of my own but the nephews and niece are all accounted for and in good hands.

HISD is deservedly gonna catch hell for not cancelling classes today.

So there was this front that came in from the west last night that was sort of a whole hurricane compacted into a few hours. Northside down to The Heights and Downtown seemed to get the worst. A million people lost power, now down to 600K, but those folks might not get it back for a week or more. Saw some video of fallen high tension lines and towers in Cypress where it looked like Godzilla had come through.

that same storm knocked out power to me in Austin, my friend in Houston, and another friend in Lafayette yesterday! buncha sad sacks just tryin' to watch the Astros game in the dark

It seems that Houston has been pretty badly affected by this storm, and people all over the state lost internet and/or power

Discussion here: hurricane coming...

r/houston is a terrific resource. People are <pissed> at the power company.

Added context; Beryl entered the Gulf late last week and was initially forecast to head into northern Mexico (this after buzzsawing across the Yucatan peninsula), then that changed to the border at Brownsville and the Rio Grande, then further up the coast to Corpus Christi, and then finally on Saturday (we thought) to Matagorda Bay. It came in Sunday night <EAST> of Matagorda.

Houston went from being told it wouldn't affect us, to we'll get the edge of the 'Dirty Side,' to actually getting all of the 'Dirty Side' in the space of about four days.

Oof: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/art_exhibits/article/rothko-chapel-hurricane-beryl-damage-19654306.php

The Rothko Chapel is closed indefinitely after damage to its building and artist Mark Rothko’s contemplative works.

“Some paintings had water damage to them,” executive director David Leslie told the Chronicle on Tuesday. “Whitten & Proctor (Fine Art Conservation) are working with us and heading up the conservation analysis and assessment. We’re building the team and a remediation plan for the conservation treatment of the paintings.”

The breadth of the damage, and estimated cost of repairs, are not yet known. Rothko paintings have sold for $82-88 million in the recent past.

...

Remnants from fallen trees still litter Sul Ross Street, where the Rothko Chapel is located. Roofers are working to repair the three gaping holes in the administrative office bungalow.

“We had a big, old oak tree that was between the office and chapel. It split, and the part that split poked through our roof,” Leslie said. “We had water coming in, though none of the technology systems, computers or servers were damaged. And everyone was home hunkering down, thankfully.”

Workers are conducting a forensic analysis of the bungalows and chapel, Leslie said. Both structures sustained water leaks as a result of the storm.

;_;